A Dangerous Method (2011)

Undescribable Perfection

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

After feeling disappointed with Fassbender's movie "Shame", I decided to give this a watch since himself and Keira Knightley were on this so why not? I swear, Knightly really put on such good emotions for her role that, she doesn't remind me of her as Elizabeth Swan in the "Pirates of the Caribbean". She really does act like a good mental asylum patient that all horror film directors should hire!The sex scenes with her and Fassbender were so genuinely amazing that you would think of them as a real life couple in which they aren't. The fake accents were brilliant as well.Its a really good movie, it is rough at scenes but seeing Knightley and Fassbender working together is just awesome! I give this rating a 8/10!

Yeah, so the movie is OK. A little weird, maybe. Kind of challenges the whole plot-thing, as it doesn't really have it.. plot. But you know, most of the stuff here is OK.Fassbender is quite good, so is Viggo Mortensen and Sara Gadon. The movie looks pretty good, it's not directly boring, overall it's an all right movie. Sets looked good, I like the mood of it. Got a craving for cigars, too, although I know they taste like crap.Anyway.Here is the problem. Keira Knightly. Oh. My. God. She is supposed to play this "crazy" (let's just use the word crazy for convenience) person, and she plays it so bad. So very, very bad. Bad and wrong. It takes a whole lot for me to get embarrassed because of bad acting, but here actually I was. She overplays to an extreme degree. The crazy-scenes are just crazy bad. Is David Cronenberg blind and deaf? How could he ever be happy with her performance in those scenes? I mean come on, she is absolutely horrible! Oh it is SO bad. She tosses and turns and presses her hands to her genitals, and coughs and makes faces and pushed out her chin (the worst part) and she stutters and cries and her mouth is crazy and please don't ever make me watch it again! It's worst in the beginning tho, thankfully she tones it down longer into the movie, but still. Her acting is just bad. It's just, downright bad. She does the accent pretty good, but the rest is rubbish. And you know, that is all I have to say. Made me want to smoke cigars, and made feel sorry for Keira Knightly.

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I like David Cronenberg, I really do, but something doesn't feel right about this effort. It felt chopped up, like the most interesting aspects of the film ended up on a floor somewhere.Jung and Freud are real-life fathers of modern day psychoanalysis whose works I have always remained interested in. Yet from what I know about their lives and their theories (especially Jung), there must have been some other script or movie that could have been written that would work a lot better than this one did.From the moment Keira Knightley came on the screen playing a mental patient my interest lessened. The more I saw her on screen in what felt like extreme overacting mode, I started thinking of other movies. The more and more her character showed up I began to wonder why they advertised this as a film about Freud and Jung, because in the end it wasn't.I couldn't get into this movie. I enjoyed the scenes between Jung and Freud and a lot of the psychoanalysis that went on in the film, but as I said before, there must have been some other way to make a movie about these two that was more . . . creative. Something that really went into the minds of these two characters. Something truly reflective of their work, because watching two psychologists sending letters back and forth wasn't really that enthralling, and watching Keira Knightley act strange and make funny faces was a huge turnoff.